Protection Manager

Duties and Responsibilities:

·         Engage with Project Manager in implementation of high-quality protection programming such as gender-based violence, PSEA and protection programs across DCL operations,

·         Provide technical oversight for the protection interventions, ensuring that the standards agreed on with WFP are adhered to in protection project design and implementation,

·         Lead the development and/or review and updating of tools and materials used on the protection projects and interventions of DCL, including monitoring and evaluation tools and databases.

·         Establish and drive accountability measures to ensure beneficiaries and affected population feedbacks are available and taken into account about the quality and appropriateness of DCL response and implementation.

·         Work with Project Manager to ensure that staff are trained and that the mechanisms in place for reporting safeguarding issues are contextually appropriate.

·         Develop policies and tools and provide technical advice in relation to identifying ‘red lines’ and supporting application of humanitarian principles and protection standards in program development and implementation.

·         provide an update on existing services and their accessibility for people with specific protection needs.

·         Organize capacity building sessions for DCL Employees / Field Officers on protection topics, create and update a protection agenda training for all DCL staff.

·         Establish and implement a training evaluation system as pre/post tests to measure DCL staff’s learning level.

·         Participate in all protection meetings organized by WFP and other NGOs both online and virtual (location of some of these meetings could be outside the north lebanon area)

·         Might coordinate with other NGOs to cover some awareness session’s topics; able to find and mobilize some “Social workers” volunteers to provide awareness sessions to the beneficiaries on site

·         Organize focus group discussions with beneficiaries concerning protection

·         Ensure that the beneficiaries are all involved in the activity and that children with diverse needs are included and supported equally;

·         Identify children/parents in need and refer cases

·         Coordinate with school focal points.

·         Monitor children during recess times, and before and after activities; support in the distribution of snacks;

·         Prepare and Participate in the trainings provided by DCL and ensure that this learning is applied among school focal points and field staff

·         Ensure that staff adhere to best-practices, professional standards and principles, and relevant SOPs and guidelines through capacity-building and on-the-job coaching;

·         Reports to: in-kind and School Feeding Project Managers

·         Immediate Supervise: the helpdesk assistants, and hotline junior assistant

·         Focal Point: for PSEA network in Lebanon

Qualifications & Skills:

·         Language skills: Fluent in Arabic and English

·         Education degree: University degree in social work, community development or another relevant degree;

·         Computer skills: good knowledge of Microsoft Office

·         Good knowledge in protection and social related topics

·         Excellent communication and listening skills in general and additionally with persons of concerns

·         Effective stress management

·         Ability to work under pressure and with short deadlines

·         Good problem-solving skills

·         Good knowledge of the humanitarian context in Lebanon

·         Excellent ability to work in a team

·         Valid driving license is an asset

·         Conflict resolution skills

·         Communication skills

·         Ability to take initiative to deal with challenges

·         Well organized, hard worker and fast learner

·         A former experience in an NGO is a plus